Walter Benjamin: Art, Aura and Authenticity | Ceasefire Magazine
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Walter Benjamin: Art, Aura and Authenticity | Ceasefire Magazine
Report: The Diminishing Marginal Value of Aesthetics
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But a print of a Vincent van Gogh, no matter how high quality its reproduction, is not the real thing. In Benjamin’s words, the print lacks the original’s “presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be”; or, as he proceeds to call it, its “aura”.
Stuart Sim • Introducing Critical Theory: A Graphic Guide (Graphic Guides Book 0)
We are formed by the structures of modern society to be insatiable consumers of an increasing range of commodified things and experiences and services. There is no art in this, because the tacit assumption that we must buy into along the way is that there is no limit to what we can consume.
L. M. Sacasas • The Art of Living
